Twitter In My Creative Tool Belt

Existing in both reality and the fiction worlds I create can be challenging. To find the paths between both worlds isn’t always an easy feat. Along the way, I pick up tricks and clues. Lately, I’ve taken to using Twitter to warm up creatively, and quite frankly, it’s awesome.

I play some tunes and just tweet for about five minutes. Random fiction thoughts after another; sometimes the ideas are connected and sometimes they aren’t. It started getting easier to guide myself to the fictional worlds I need to get to; it is now the first thing I do when I sit down on my sofa-desk to write; after I walk my dogs and right before I write the day’s blog post. As soon as I started thinking about the process of getting into my creative mode like it was transportation to an office, a brand new world opened up to me…and it was a fun one.

It’s a lot of fun to let my creative flow happen live on Twitter like that, something about the social aspect of it adds to the power up of free-flow writing. To share creative thoughts in such a raw but acceptable state that get’s me ready to sink my teeth into deeper projects. I am getting more and more interested in exploring different ways to reach out and start collaborative storytelling. I want to figure more ways for writers at all stages of their careers and hobbies to connect their ideas with others.

I don’t know; perhaps it’s inspiration from being part of the NaNoWriMo community this year, but I’m fairly focused on collaborative storytelling and strengthening the creative process.